Wittmar (Volkmarsen)

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Wittmar - also: Witmeri (963 to 1037), Witmar (1239) or Witmaria (1360) - was a village already mentioned in a document in the 10th century, but probably much older and abandoned and desolate in the 16th century at the latest . 5 km north of the core town of Volkmarsen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse . The Wittmark Chapel , built around 930 on the site of an older building and renovated from 2000 to 2003, is the only remaining part of the former village.

Wittmarkapelle (2010)

The village was in the Twiste valley at the western foot of the 261 m high Kollenberg, about 1.2 km south of the Hessian border with North Rhine-Westphalia . It is believed to be one of the oldest settlements in the area and the two popular theories about the origin of the village name seem to corroborate this. One says that the place was named after the monk Witmar, who in 826 moved with St. Ansgar from Corvey on his first missionary trip to Scandinavia. The other interprets the name as "Witt-mare = white horse", which was sacrificed to the pre-Christian gods, and derives from it the existence of a Saxon place of worship. The original church was probably an Anabaptist church during the Christianization of the Saxon Hessengau and may have been built on the site of a previously pagan place of worship . The church was a parish church and is mentioned in 1499. The church in Volkmarsen, dedicated to St. Laurentius , which was replaced by the church of St. Marien as the town church after 1260, was a branch of the church in Wittmar.

In the 13th century, the village was demonstrably under the rule of the Counts of Everstein ; It is not known whether they owned it before and during or after the reign of Duke of Saxony Heinrich the Lion . In 1056 the village, as well as the nearby and now also desolate Mederich , is still listed in the property register of Corvey Abbey under Abbot Saracho . The Eversteiners enfeoffed Messrs. Groppe von Gudenberg , who also had their own property in Wittmar , with the court and church patronage in Wittmar, but both were then transferred in 1237/1239 to the Augustinian choir women - Aroldessen monastery through a gift from Dietrich Groppe .

literature

  • Adolf Gottlob : manorial rule and county in the Twist valley and the beginnings of the city of Volkmarsen in the 13th century. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity. Vol. 79, No. 2, 1921, ZDB -ID 201422-1 , pp. 85-124.

Web links

Commons : Wittmarkapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the city of Volkmarsen. On the city's website.
  2. ^ Louis Curtze : History and description of the principality of Waldeck. A manual for friends of the Fatherland. Speyer'sche Buchhandlung, Arolsen 1850, p. 225 .
  3. ↑ At the same time he gave the monastery patronage over the churches of Volkmarsen and von Benfeld. ( Georg Landau : The Hessian knight castles and their owners. Volume 4. Bohné, Cassel 1839, pp. 237–242 .)

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '3.4 "  N , 9 ° 7" 19.2 "  E